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==Taxonomy==
 
==Taxonomy==
 
{{Taxobox
 
{{Taxobox
| name = Potentilla gracilis
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| name = ''Potentilla gracilis''
 
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
 
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| subregnum = Tracheobionta
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| subregnum = Viridiplantae
| phylum = Spermatophyta
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| phylum = Tracheophyta
| subphylum= Magnoliophyta
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| subphylum= Spermatophytina
 
| classis = Magnoliopsida
 
| classis = Magnoliopsida
 
| subclassis = Rosanae
 
| subclassis = Rosanae
 
| ordo = Rosales
 
| ordo = Rosales
 
| familia = Rosaceae
 
| familia = Rosaceae
| genus = '''''Potentilla''''' L.
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| genus = ''Potentilla'' L.
| species = '''''Potentilla gracilis''''' Douglas ex Hook
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| species = '''''Potentilla gracilis''''' Douglas ex Hook.
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| subspecies = ''Potentilla gracilis'' var. ''gracilis'' Douglas ex Hook.
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| synonyms = *''Potentilla macropetala'' Rydb.
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*''Potentilla longipedunculata'' Rydb.
 
}}
 
}}
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==Description==
 
==Description==

Revision as of 23:07, 17 March 2021

photo by Ben Legler

Scientific Name: Potentilla gracilis var. gracilis

Family: Rosaceae

Common names: slender cinquefoil, graceful cinquefoil

Synonyms/Misapplications: Potentilla gracilis vars. fastigiata, glabrata, permollis, Potentilla fastigiata, P. glomerata, P. macropetala, P. longipedunculata

Codon: POTGRA

Taxonomy

Potentilla gracilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Viridiplantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Spermatophytina
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosanae
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Potentilla L.
Species: Potentilla gracilis Douglas ex Hook.
Subspecies: Potentilla gracilis var. gracilis Douglas ex Hook.
Synonyms
  • Potentilla macropetala Rydb.
  • Potentilla longipedunculata Rydb.

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Description

Highly variable native perennial from rising from a branched crown, erect to slightly spreading stems, 4-8 dm tall. 5 varieties are intergrading.

Basal leaves are numerous, the leaves are white woolly on the underside, bear large stipules, comprised of 5-9 leaflets, oblong-eliptic, margins deeply toothed.

Inflorescence large, many-flowered, open, somewhat flat-topped; calyx 6-10 mm. broad, the 5 lobes 4-10 mm. long, ovate-lanceolate, the alternating bracteoles narrowly lanceolate, nearly as long; petals 5, yellow, obcordate, longer than the sepals; stamens 20; pistils numerous, the style slender, sub-terminal on the achene and the same length.

Fruit is an achene 1.5-2 mm. long, smooth, greenish.[2][3]

Bloom Period

July - August.[3]

Distribution

Alaska south, on both sides of Cascades, to California, east to Quebec, Montana, Colorado and Arizona.[4]

Habitat

Damp to seasonally damp meadows, flatlands, sagebrush steppes, open forest.[4]

Uses

Wildlife: Medium palatability for browsing and grazing animals.

First Nations: Sx̌ʷyʔiɬpx use, infusion of pounded root as a blood tonic, antidiarrheal, and general tonic for aches and wash for sores. Nlaka'pamux use as root and leaf poultice, mixed with subalpine fir pitch, used as a drawing medicine on wounds.[5]

Propagation

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References

  1. Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved from https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=24715#null
  2. Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2020. E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Plants of British Columbia [eflora.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. [Accessed:2020-05-09]
  3. 3.0 3.1 Bowcutt, F., & Hamman, Sarah. (2016). Vascular plants of the South Sound prairies (First ed.). Olympia, Washington: The Evergreen State College Press.
  4. 4.0 4.1 MacKinnon, A., Pojar, Jim, & Alaback, Paul B. (2004). Plants of the Pacific Northwest coast : Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska (Rev. ed.). Vancouver: Lone Pine Pub.
  5. Native American Ethnobotany Database. Retrieved from http://naeb.brit.org/uses/search/?string=potentilla+gracilis